Variatus Platy Breeding Question

[FishLover4+1]

Hi
Long story short I've accidentally / on purpose bred some really pretty variatus platys that I think are unique (according to a google images search). I've set up a tank to move the males into (to stop them breeding with their daughters / sisters / half-sisters) and I'm going to buy a different male to hopefully bred with some of the females to keep the colours going.
Basically I'm wondering how distantly related they have to be to breed. So if I had a female would I be able to breed her with her uncle without risking deformed fry? Or do they have to be completely unrelated?
Thanks
Oh and by the way has anyone ever heard of yellow platys with black spots and mickey mouse marks?

 

[ncguppy830]

well remeber inbreeding doesnt mean that the fry will be deformed, only too much inbreeding well cause deformaties, although i would reccomend breeding with an unrealted just to keep the genetic diversity going.

 

[FishLover4+1]

Ok thanks

 

[fish48]

if you have a unique platy and you wish to keep the same colour or colours  going, you will need to choose a best male and breed it back to one of it’s sisters/ daughters, breed the same male back with one of the daughters from the next generation you may need to proceed many generations before they breed true, by adding a different male you will only mix up the colour that you may be trying to create, don’t worry too much about inbreeding ,
ncguppy830http://www.fishforums.net/index.php?/user/113331-ncguppy830/ mentioned by inbreeding doesn’t mean that the fry will be deformed, only too much inbreeding well cause deformities,
 To a certain extent it may be true, it’s not so much that it is too much inbreeding but more on the side of incorrect inbreeding an Experienced fish keeper should be able to inbreed with the same fish for many generations /years,
the average fish keeper will probably only keep and breed there livebearers for a short period of time and therefore not gaining the knowledge of how to inbreed them properly,
I can remember buying my first guppy’s more than 30 years ago and even then there were talk about inbreeding and how bad it is for the fish I believed it for a while and worried about deformed fry and the problems that it may cause and i soon ended up with a tank full of guppy’s i didn’t find any deformed fry so let them keep breeding once again with no problems i soon got fed-up with guppy’s and then tried swords and still no deformed fry or sick fish, soon after I joined a fish club and gained a bit more knowledge about breeding guppy’s and livebearers I remember visiting one of the club members fish room and seeing most of her fish tanks full of wild guppy’s, some tanks had as many as 300 in 2-3 foot tanks all in very good health she kept and inbreed them for many years the method she used was  to separate all the males and every so often remix broods it helps when broods of different ages are mixed,
Any way this is one method that I use and it works I also have some livebearers that I have kept in the same tanks with out adding new blood for almost 15 years with out any problems, I have many  species that have been inbreed for more than 30 years and are still going strong